D&ceMBER 14, 1908] Tures Score or New PLANTS 525 
with grayish bark; twigs angular, always glabrous. Leaves 
rigid, darker green above, glabrous, broadly lanceolate or 
oblongish, gradually tapering into the acuminate point, base 
obtuse to acute and usually subequilateral, entire margins, 
very unequal, the larger blades 15 cm. long and 4 cm. wide 
below the middle, but frequently much smaller, opposite, 
scattered along the twigs, rather thick but easily drying; 
nerves glabrous, subparallel, much ascending, quite fine and 
obscure, 5 to 7 lateral pairs, more numerous toward the 
base; petiole 3 to 8 mm. long, glabrous; stipule connate, also 
glabrous, 1 cm. long, the upper one half divided into la- 
ciniate segments, the basal lateral portions coarsely fimbri- 
cate, glabrous. Infrutescence axillary, mostly clustered, 1 to 
2 cm. in diameter, several fruited, sessile or short stalked; 
involucre about 5 mm. long or much shorter, the bracts very 
unequal, ciliate pubescent, strongly nerved; pedicels quite 
short; calyx united at the base, 2 mm. long, oblongish el- 
liptic, strongly nerved glabrous; corolla and stamens and 
pistils not seen; ovary inferior, glabrous and usually 4-lob- 
ulate; drupes subglobose or ellipsoid, 2 mm. in diameter, 
glabrous, short and slenderly pedicelled, at the apex bearing 
a crown of 4 obtuse strongly reticulate segments, white, 2- 
celled, splitting into equal plano-concave crustaceous halves; 
seeds about 8 in eachcell, imbedded in a pulpy mass, coal 
black, hard, less than 1 mm. thick, strongly and irregular- 
ly angled, striate and minutely pitted. 
Type specimen 9434, A. D. E. Elmer, Dumaguete, Cuer- 
nos Mountains, Province of Negros, Oriental Negros, March, 
1908. 
This shrub was discovered on a wind swept ridge at 3500 
' feet or at the lower limit of the fog region. 
Evidently it falls with the H. congesta R. Br. group, but 
our spacimens have thinner leaves and fruits at least larger. 
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